- Discuss how administrative agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) take action in order to be effective in preventing high-risk gambles in securities / banking, a foundation of the economy.
- Determine the elements of a valid contract, and discuss how consumers and banks each have a duty of good faith and fair dealing in the banking relationship
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Compare and contrast the differences between intentional and negligent tort actions
- Discuss the tort action of Interference with Contractual Relations and Participating in a Breach of Fiduciary duty and, if the bank you ve chosen were to behave as JP Morgan did, would you be able to prevail in such a tort action.
Assignment 2: JPMorgan Chase Strayer University LEG 100 Discuss how administrative agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) take action in order to be effective in preventing high-risk gambles in securities / banking, a foundation of the economy. On January 11, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted 3-2 to propose regulations to implement Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act), commonly referred to as the “Volcker Rule.” The proposal specifically prohibits a bank or institution that owns a bank from engaging in proprietary trading that is not at the behest of its clients, and from owning or investing in a hedge fund or private equity fund, and also limits the liabilities that the largest banks can hold .Under discussion is the possibility of restrictions on the way market making activities are compensated; traders would be paid on the basis of the spread of the transactions rather than any profit that the trader made for the client. Determine the elements of a valid contract, and discuss how consumers and banks each have a duty of good faith and fair dealing in the banking relationship. A contract may be defined as an agreement made between two or more corporations or persons that the courts will enforce. Contract law differs from many other areas of the law in that the parties need only follow the principles set out in the law to create their own rights and duties that the courts will then enforce. In some respects, the parties create their own “law” that they are obliged to follow. The creation of a binding contract that the courts will enforce requires the contracting parties to meet a number of requirements that are prescribed by the law of contract. While these requirements are not numerous, they must, nevertheless, be met before the agreement creates rights and duties that may be…
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